I bet the Firefox team would be keen to have a test case so they could
fix this.
On Sep 19, 7:07 am, more_ambition_than_talent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently experienced the obstinate 'ob.toString' error while parsing
> dynamically-generated external xhtml11 pages into Firebug 3.0.1 using
> mootools on Vista..
>
> One page loaded perfectly - but it's almost-identical twin, although
> loading fully, produced the error.
>
> Pasting the entire 'bad' page code into the 'good' page, and
> commenting it all out STILL produced the error..
>
> ..and eventually removing the last fragment below removed the bug...
>
> <!--head>
> <link title="style" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"
> media="screen" />
> <script type="text/javascript" src="some.js" charset="utf-8">
> <script type="text/javascript" src="another.js" charset="utf-8"></
> script>
> <title>etc</title>
> </head-->
>
> ..and replacing the missing '</script>' tag also solved the problem
> EVEN THOUGH THE CODE IS COMMENTED OUT! Deeply weird...
>
> Rich
>
> On Sep 9, 6:01 pm, serializer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Now unable to reproduce. Also there was a bug in my Javascript which
> > was stopping the control working (this was displayed as an additional
> > error. I thought it was because the script wasn't being loaded. In
> > fact it was an unrelated error.)
>
> > Will post further if I see it again.
>
> > Pete
>
> > On Sep 9, 5:17 pm, John J Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Please post an example of the code that gives the message. From what
> > > you say, it sounds like you are reading JS code via AJAX and eval() to
> > > compile it. That works all of the time. What is "ob"? What file does
> > > it error point to?
>
> > > On Aug 29, 10:32 pm, scheurbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi all,
>
> > > > I'm trying to do some tricky schtick with JS, in particular I'm
> > > > loading up a bunch of 'remote' JS files within a JS file.
>
> > > > I'm using jQuery ('cos it's pretty damn cool) and in the 'remote' JS
> > > > pages I'm loading, in the call to load them I need to initiate an
> > > > eval( scriptcontents ) call in order to be able to initialise the JS
> > > > code within each file. Which is fine and dandy because it seems to
> > > > work.
>
> > > > The problem I get is that because in my 'remote' JS files there are
> > > > various prototype calls to enable global use of the functions within
> > > > the other JS files, Firebug always seems to return an error message
> > > > saying...
>
> > > > ob.toString is not a function
> > > > [Break on this error] undefined
>
> > > > (plus a location of the error, which on a 37 line HTML file it says
> > > > the error's occuring at line number count greater than that total)
>
> > > > ... even though everything seems to be working correctly. If I comment
> > > > out the prototype calls, the error does not display and my fancy JS
> > > > stuff doesn't work properly (something to do with particular functions
> > > > being defined within one file and the other JS files won't be able to
> > > > access them -- it's a long story).
>
> > > > Anyone know the explanation as to why the script(s) all seem to work
> > > > fine (using Firefox 3.0.1 and Firebug 1.2.0) but this error still pops
> > > > up in Firebug? Alternatively, if anyone knows another method to load
> > > > and initialise remote JS files (within a JS file, not within an HTML
> > > > document) then I'm interested in hearing how you do it!
>
> > > > Kind regards,
>
> > > > Scheurbert
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